The impact of urban agglomerations on carbon emissions in China: Spatial scope and mechanism

Hu, Ruifeng; Xu, Weiqiao; Liu, L ancui; Cui, Zhiyu; Zhao, Changyi

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138250

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“…vulnerability assessment [50], carbon emissions [51], environmental quality assessment [52], sustainability performance evaluation, etc. [53].…”

Section: Studies On Urban Agglomerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do New Urbanization Policies Promote Sustainable Urbanization? Evidence from China’s Urban Agglomerations

Liu,

Jia,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Land

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China’s urbanization has received as much attention as its economic growth in recent years. While rapid urbanization has promoted modernization and wealth creation, it has also brought many problems and challenges. So, since 2014, the Chinese government has implemented a new urbanization policy nationwide. However, few researchers have examined whether China’s new urbanization policies promote sustainable urbanization. This paper evaluates the sustainable urbanization of 19 urban agglomerations in China using the elastic coefficient. The results indicate a significant increase in the number of cities achieving sustainable urbanization since the implementation of China’s new urbanization policy. The number has risen from 46 in the period of 2010–2015 to 71 in the period of 2015–2021. Considering the impact of the new coronavirus on economy, there would have been even more cities entering sustainable urbanization during the latter period. This indicates that the new urbanization policy has a positive influence on the sustainable urbanization of China’s urban agglomerations. The sustainable urbanization status is not static and changes with different policies that are implemented in different time periods. Therefore, it is important to find useful policies that can guide and enhance the urbanization process in these cities. In addition, cities that have a sustainable urbanization status are not perfect. To address this issue, it is important to categorize and implement targeted policies for cities experiencing both sustainable and non-sustainable urbanization. Changes in a city’s size or urbanization rates are not related to the city’s sustainable urbanization status. A larger city size does not indicate sustainable urbanization, and, similarly, cities with faster urbanization rates do not exhibit a higher level of urbanization sustainability.

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“…vulnerability assessment [50], carbon emissions [51], environmental quality assessment [52], sustainability performance evaluation, etc. [53].…”

Section: Studies On Urban Agglomerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do New Urbanization Policies Promote Sustainable Urbanization? Evidence from China’s Urban Agglomerations

Liu,

Jia,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Land

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“…The effect of emission reduction will vary according to the regional economy and green innovation capacity. [24] There is little literature on the evaluation of urban development, and most of the evaluation dimensions are relatively thin, while the green competitiveness of this paper comprehensively considers the economic, social, resource and environmental dimensions in the process of urban development, and most of the literature treats the intensity of urban carbon emissions as an dependent variable variable, and less of it considers the intensity of urban carbon emissions as an independent variable variable to analyze its impact on a certain aspect. And the existing literature on urban green competitiveness is more in the evaluation point of view, and there are fewer studies on the effect of practicing the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals on the level of urban green competitiveness.…”

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Calculation of Urban Green Competitiveness and Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Evolution Characteristics in China

Tao,

Yu,

Pengyan

et al. 2024

IJEPP

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It is particularly important to analyze the influencing factors of urban green competitiveness and the spatial distribution characteristics under the constraint of carbon emissions. The research ideas of this paper: firstly, this paper selects the carbon emission intensity and urban green competitiveness data in 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2020 for panel data regression; secondly, this paper applies a variety of methods to carry out the robustness test, and the results show that the regression model is better, and analyzes the development of urban green competitiveness for the heterogeneity of large cities and small cities; subsequently, the use of inverse geographic matrix to analyze the spatial correlation between the global Moran index and local Moran index for urban green competitiveness, and to analyze the spatial and temporal pattern evolution of urban green competitiveness. The conclusions of the study show that, from the viewpoint of influencing factors, carbon emission intensity presents a significant negative effect on the development of urban green competitiveness, and has a greater impact on the green competitiveness of large cities than that of small cities. From the perspective of spatial correlation, urban green competitiveness presents positive spatial correlation and shows a growing trend over time. Finally, this paper puts forward relevant policy recommendations based on the findings of the study.

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“…According to this theory, the EIP policy incentivizes urban enterprises to coalesce within ecological industrial park areas, serving as spatial hubs [19]. Within these EIPs, enterprises can effectively mitigate operational costs, expedite the exchange, and dissemination of diverse production factors, including technology, human capital, and financial resources, within the agglomerated setting [55]. At the regional level, economic agglomeration and carbon emissions exhibit an "inverted N-shaped" relationship, implying the existence of thresholds for both emission increases and decreases relative to economic agglomeration (Zhou, 2024) [56].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Industrial value added (IAV) [41,52] and industrial enterprise profits (IEP) [43] serve as indicators of industrial structure, while the ratio of the sum of value added in the secondary and tertiary industries to the administrative area assesses economic agglomeration (EA) [45,48,58]. Additionally, the logarithm of non-agricultural output to administrative area is utilized to measure industrial agglomeration (PA) [54,55,67] effects. Technological innovation (TI) [68,69] is gauged by the number of patented inventions, green innovation (GI) [51,57] by the quantity of green patents, and digital innovation (DI) [70] by the number of patents related to the digital economy.…”

Section: Transmission Mechanism Regressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Carbon Neutrality in Agglomeration: Impact of Eco-Industry Development on Urban Carbon Emission Efficiency

Wen,

Wang,

Liu

2024

Sustainability

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Ecological industrial parks (EIPs) play a pivotal role as primary drivers of China’s industrial green transformation, facilitating the enhancement of urban carbon emission efficiency (UCEE) and the realization of green sustainable development. This study empirically investigates the effects of EIP policies on UCEE through quasi-natural experiments, utilizing data from 282 prefecture-level cities in China spanning from 2006 to 2021. Employing a multi-period difference-in-difference (DID) method, the findings are as follows: (1) The implementation of EIP policies leads to a 2.5% average increase in UCEE. (2) Event analysis reveals certain lagging characteristics in the promoting effect of EIP policies on the carbon emission efficiency of pilot cities. (3) EIP construction primarily enhances UCEE by reinforcing agglomeration effects and elevating innovation ability. (4) The promoting effect of EIP construction is more pronounced in the eastern and central regions, as well as in non-resource-based cities within different regions. Drawing from the empirical results, this study provides pertinent recommendations for EIP construction, offering theoretical guidance to policymakers and managers in crafting sustainable development strategies.

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The impact of urban agglomerations on carbon emissions in China: Spatial scope and mechanism

Cited by 18 publications

References 69 publications

Do New Urbanization Policies Promote Sustainable Urbanization? Evidence from China’s Urban Agglomerations

Do New Urbanization Policies Promote Sustainable Urbanization? Evidence from China’s Urban Agglomerations

Calculation of Urban Green Competitiveness and Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Evolution Characteristics in China

Towards Carbon Neutrality in Agglomeration: Impact of Eco-Industry Development on Urban Carbon Emission Efficiency

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